Hello fantastic new mechanical design engineering job, goodbye long commute: Paul’s story

Experienced mechanical design engineering candidate needs help with the search for a job closer to home

Paul is a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer with 10+ years’ experience in various manufacturing companies.

Previously in his career, Paul had been working at a company based in Oxfordshire. Although he enjoyed the role, when he moved to Coventry, the 100 mile per day commute impinged on Paul’s personal time and significantly impacted his financial outgoings.

He wanted to work at a company that offered mechanical engineering career progression yet provided the flexible/hybrid working approach that would afford him more of a work/life balance and reduce his travel expenses.

Champions of work/life balance as well as career success

Vincent Gurney advocates work/life balance. We don’t believe that realising your career ambitions should cost you your wellbeing. Long commutes are tiring and can end up making a dent in your personal time and on your health, not to mention your bank account.

Fortunately, remote and hybrid working have become commonplace since the pandemic. Since allowing their employees some flexibility of work location and hours, many companies report improved productivity and thriving performance.

As an engineering recruitment company, we are helping more and more candidates find job opportunities that allow them more flexibility – candidates like Paul. He reached out to Vincent Gurney asking us to find roles with hybrid work arrangements that would also encourage and empower him to develop his career.

How Vincent Gurney helped Paul find the right hybrid mechanical design engineer job

For over 15 years, Vincent Gurney has been helping people find their ideal engineering jobs.

Here’s how our expert team supported Paul with the next step on his career journey:

  • Had an initial phone conversation to establish Paul’s exact career requirements

  • Conducted a detailed pre-screening process

  • Outlined salary expectations

  • Shortlisted suitable organisations to approach

  • Took Paul’s CV to market and started calling companies that were a good fit

  • Leveraged existing relationships with hiring managers in the field

  • Organised interviews for Paul

  • Used industry knowledge to advise on Paul on mechanical design engineering recruitment dos and don’ts

  • Assisted Paul with negotiations over job offers

A fabulous new role, just down the road

Choosing Vincent Gurney as his mechanical design engineering recruitment specialist has resulted in the following benefits for Paul:

  • Successfully placed in a hybrid- based role at a company based in Leamington Spa that specialises in the design, development and manufacture of micro turbine gensets for the telecoms tower market

  • Achieved an interview and job offer within two weeks of his registration with our agency

  • Received post-placement care in the form of regular telephone catch-ups to make sure that he was settling in to his new job well

“It was a pleasure working alongside Paul. I’m very happy we found him a hybrid role that fits what he was looking for. The icing on the cake was that the hiring manager was a previous candidate I placed in the company, so it was positive to see how he’d progressed into a decision-making position, too. It’s brilliant to see out candidates going from strength to strength on their career journeys.”

– Lewis Chapman, recruitment consultant, Vincent Gurney